Machine Quilting with Templates

Creating Design Perfection

Let award-winning quilter and teacher Kimmy Brunner guide you in making perfectly geometric quilting designs with just three basic quilting template shapes.

You can achieve the quilting precision generally seen only in computerized quilting. With just three basic quilting template shapes and Kimmy Brunner's instruction, you can create perfectly geometric quilting designs too complex to be believed and too easy to pass up. Learn Kimmy's unique and innovative template techniques, including turning blocks into borders, merging traditional block designs, and her signature KimMotion filler design. Use templates directly on your quilt top with a longarm for a creative twist on this fun process or use marking techniques to prepare your quilt tops for domestic machine stitching.

Lesson 8. Turning Blocks Into Borders

Lesson 9. Dresden Dahlias

Lesson 10. Curved Crosshatching

Learn how to add crosshatching to your quilts using templates.

24:53

Lesson 11. Putting It All Together

Apply the template techniques you used in the previous lessons to finish the Quilt of Valor.

"This class just blew me away. I love the ideas and techniques you taught us. Your teaching style and organization made this course flow so quickly. I needed this course more than I thought. Let me practice and then I'm running with it. Thank you for sharing this course with us thru Craftsy!" - Pu'aCalifornia

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Lesson plan

10:07

Lesson 1. Introduction

Meet Kimmy Brunner and learn what tools you'll be using for the class.

24:15

Lesson 2. Simple Straight Lines

Learn all about the quilt you'll be making and the basics of using templates.

24:40

Lesson 3. 8 Lines, 1 Great Star

Create a Mariner's Compass Star using templates, and learn how to adjust and embellish it.

17:49

Lesson 4. Star Variations

Learn how to create variations on the star design through different template markings.

Lesson 9. Dresden Dahlias

Lesson 10. Curved Crosshatching

Lesson 11. Putting It All Together

Apply the template techniques you used in the previous lessons to finish the Quilt of Valor.

The instructor

Kimmy Brunner, Instructor of Machine Quilting with Templates

I'm a third generation quilter who was taught to quilt by a very patient Grandma and I'm a two-time Machine Quilting Teacher of the Year. I teach nationally and internationally, appear on quilting TV and radio programs, and have my own line of products and DVDs in addition to teaching a class right here on Craftsy!

Ratings & reviews

Class rating

(79 reviews)

Inspired

by scoopy101277260 on January 21, 2015

I have totally enjoyed this class. Kimmy is an awesome teacher; so easy to listen too and follow. I am almost finished a Dresden place quilt and now I now how I will quilt it. I hope to enter it in our local show in April. Thelma.

I have totally enjoyed this class. Kimmy is an awesome teacher; so easy to listen too and follow. I am almost finished a Dresden place quilt and now I now how I will quilt it. I hope to enter it in our local show in April. Thelma.

Inspiring!!

by johnson1384071 on January 21, 2015

This class will totally help me with finishing many quilts I was afraid to quilt. Excellent class.

This class will totally help me with finishing many quilts I was afraid to quilt. Excellent class.

Awesome Class, I Am A Newbie And Very Intrigued. Can't Wait To Get Started. I Am Sure I Will Review This Class Very Often. Thanks So Much

by Ruth1211 on January 8, 2015

Great Lessons

by joycejnp425567 on January 3, 2015

Inspiring sand helpful

Inspiring sand helpful

Great Class

by susanlii on November 22, 2014

This is the most helpful long arm class I've taken so far. Kimmy demonstrates how to use templates for simple and complicated designs. I'm still a beginner at long arming but now have the confidence to draw out my own designs then stitch them out. I love the Craftsy platform because because I can pause and review if needed. This is better than an in-person classroom. I just love Craftsy classes!

This is the most helpful long arm class I've taken so far. Kimmy demonstrates how to use templates for simple and complicated designs. I'm still a beginner at long arming but now have the confidence to draw out my own designs then stitch them out. I love the Craftsy platform because because I can pause and review if needed. This is better than an in-person classroom. I just love Craftsy classes!